copy and paste this google map to your website or blog!
Press copy button and paste into your blog or website.
(Please switch to 'HTML' mode when posting into your blog. Examples: WordPress Example, Blogger Example)
When should the word English be capitalized? I am often confused how the word "English" should be written in phrases such as "English language", because I have seen both variants: capitalized and starting with lowercase letter What is the m
Why does gasoline have the word gas in it, if its never gaseous? The etymology according to Dictionary com: gasoline coined 1865 as gasolene, from gas (q v ) + chemical suffix -ine -ene current spelling is 1871; shortened form gas first recorded Amer Eng 1
abbreviations - English Language Usage Stack Exchange This is strictly style manual stuff American English generally prefers using periods with abbreviations, and British English generally prefers to omit the periods Both are "correct", but which one is acceptable is a matter of who is accepting it It's not grammar or spelling, merely a punctuation convention I always omit the periods for academic degrees If a publisher wants the periods, it
Renumeration vs Remuneration (reimbursed financially), which is correct? According to the OED renumeration remuneration are interchangeable So too are the associated verbs - renumerate remunerate However, some commentators have strong feelings about renumeration being used with its first-cited meaning (i e remuneration, see below) " to be avoided at all costs is the metathesized form renumeration " (R W Burchfield New Fowler's Mod Eng Usage (1996) 666
In British English, should it be licensee or licencee? We all know that quot;license quot; in American English is quot;licence quot; in British English But what about the person to whom the licence is given? Various dictionaries show the 'c' versio
English teacher or teacher of English - English Language Usage . . . In speech whether a teacher is English or teaches English depends entirely on the stress used in the sentence A teacher of English is referred to as an: 'Eng lish teacher Here these two words form a compound noun and are stressed just on the first syllable of the compound However, a teacher from England (who might teach anything at all) will be referred to as: an 'English 'Teach er Here we